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Job Details
Job#: 2090747
Job Description:
Description:
Role Summary
We are seeking a FinOps Dashboard Developer to design, build, and maintain dashboards that deliver actionable insights on cloud cost, usage, optimization opportunities, and budget/forecast performance. You will be the bridge between raw billing & usage data, engineering, finance, and business stakeholders-making data understandable, timely, and visual.
Your work will enable cross-team visibility, help track key FinOps metrics, highlight anomalies, support forecasting, and drive cost / performance trade-offs. You'll help elevate the organization's FinOps practice maturity by delivering self-service, rich visualizations and reporting tools.
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Key Responsibilities
Ingest, clean, transform, and enrich cloud billing, usage, license, and carbon/sustainability data; integrate with other business data (e.g. finance, engineering) as needed.
Define, implement, and maintain dashboards and visual reports for multiple personas (e.g. engineering, finance, product, leadership) to understand cloud spend, utilization, waste, trends, forecasts, and anomalies.
Work with tagging/metadata strategy to ensure cost allocation is accurate; help ensure tagging compliance and correction logic.
Create forecasts & variance reporting for cloud spend; surface deviations (budgets vs actuals), highlight overspending, identify optimization opportunities (rightsizing, savings plans / reserved instances, idle resources).
Build alerting, anomaly detection, and trend monitoring into dashboard/reporting tools.
Enable self-service reporting where feasible-so teams can slice & dice cost/usage data relevant to them.
Collaborate closely with FinOps practitioners, engineering (cloud architects, platform teams), finance, procurement, product, and other stakeholders to understand their reporting needs and use cases.
Ensure data accuracy, consistency, reliability-manage upstream dependencies (cloud providers, usage APIs, billing exports, etc.).
Implement best practices for performance of dashboards, scalability, data latency, and maintain documentation of metrics definitions.
Stay current on cloud billing models, FinOps standards (e.g. FOCUS data spec), emerging practices in cost transparency and cloud sustainability. FinOps Foundation+2FinOps Foundation+2
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Desired Skills & Qualifications
Category Must-Haves Nice-to-Haves
Technical / Tooling Experience with business intelligence / visualization tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Grafana, etc.) Knowledge of cloud-native dashboards/tools (AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, Google Cloud Platform Billing, etc.), open source dashboards
Strong SQL skills; data modelling, ETL pipelines, ability to work with large datasets Experience with streaming or near-real-time data pipelines, data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, etc.)
Familiarity with cloud providers' billing / usage / tag APIs and data exports Hands-on with data engineering tools (Airflow, dbt, Spark, etc.)
FinOps / Domain Knowledge Understanding of cloud cost concepts: unit costs, on-demand vs reserved/savings plans, commitments, amortization, rightsizing, utilization, tagging, shared services cost allocation Certifications like FinOps Certified Practitioner, or cloud provider cost-optimization certifications
Awareness of FinOps Framework, Reporting & Analytics capabilities; ability to translate usage data into cost stories that drive actions Experience with embedding sustainability / carbon metrics alongside cost & usage data
Soft Skills Strong communication skills: ability to present insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders, tell stories with data Experience working in cross-functional teams (engineering, product, finance)
Strong problem-solving skills; ability to translate vague data / requests into well-defined dashboard requirements Ability to teach others / build dashboard standards / provide training documentation
Operational Excellence Experience ensuring data quality, handling missing/dirty data, metadata/versioning of metrics Monitoring, performance tuning of dashboards and alerting on data freshness / pipeline health
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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) / Success Metrics
Dashboard adoption: percentage of core personas (engineering, finance, product, leadership) using dashboards regularly.
Cost transparency: % of cloud spend covered by accurate tagging / metadata enabling cost allocation.
Forecast accuracy: variance between forecasted vs actual cloud spend.
Anomaly detection responsiveness: number and severity of cost anomalies flagged and remediated.
Time to insight: how long it takes from data availability (e.g. billing export) to dashboards being updated.
Efficiency gains: reductions in engineering or finance effort for ad hoc cost/usage analyses thanks to dashboards / self-service.
Cost savings identified (and realized) via insights delivered through dashboards: rightsizing, reserve purchase, waste elimination, etc.
________________________________________
Experience
Required: 3-5 years in data / dashboard / business intelligence work, especially in cloud or technology cost analytics.
Solid experience with cloud cost or usage datasets.
Experience interfacing with stakeholders from engineering, finance, product and translating requirements.
Preferred: Experience in organizations already practicing or maturing FinOps; prior role as dashboard developer or cost/usage analyst; familiarity with multiple cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
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Tools / Technologies (Typical Stack)
Billing / usage APIs from AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform
Data warehouse / lake (e.g. BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, etc.)
ETL / ELT pipelines (e.g. dbt, Airflow, custom scripts)
Dashboard / visualization tools (Power BI, Looker, Grafana, Tableau, etc.)
Version control (git) for dashboard definitions and metrics logic
Possibly scripting / coding in Python, SQL, etc.
Key Responsibilities:
Monitor and analyze cloud usage and spending trends across platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, surface anomalies and drive to resolution
Implement cost optimization and waste management strategies (e.g., Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, right-sizing)
Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to provide visibility into cloud costs
Establish and enforce tagging standards and cost allocation policies. Ensure all resources are tagged every month
Educate teams on FinOps best practices and promote a culture of cost awareness
Automate cost management tasks and integrate FinOps tools into CI/CD pipelines
Flexera One CCO administrator
Participate in external forums to bring improvement suggestions on the FinOps engineering best practices (e.g. attending and contributing to FinOps foundation slack channels, community forums, FinOps-X days, etc.)
Required Skills & Qualifications:
5+ years of overall experience and 2+ years as FinOps engineer
Strong understanding of cloud platforms and pricing models
Deep understanding of cloud native cost management tools and Flexera One Cloud Cost Optimization
Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI, Tableau)
Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell) for automation
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Preferred Qualifications:
FinOps Certified Engineer or similar certification.
Experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles.
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
Job Description:
Description:
Role Summary
We are seeking a FinOps Dashboard Developer to design, build, and maintain dashboards that deliver actionable insights on cloud cost, usage, optimization opportunities, and budget/forecast performance. You will be the bridge between raw billing & usage data, engineering, finance, and business stakeholders-making data understandable, timely, and visual.
Your work will enable cross-team visibility, help track key FinOps metrics, highlight anomalies, support forecasting, and drive cost / performance trade-offs. You'll help elevate the organization's FinOps practice maturity by delivering self-service, rich visualizations and reporting tools.
________________________________________
Key Responsibilities
Ingest, clean, transform, and enrich cloud billing, usage, license, and carbon/sustainability data; integrate with other business data (e.g. finance, engineering) as needed.
Define, implement, and maintain dashboards and visual reports for multiple personas (e.g. engineering, finance, product, leadership) to understand cloud spend, utilization, waste, trends, forecasts, and anomalies.
Work with tagging/metadata strategy to ensure cost allocation is accurate; help ensure tagging compliance and correction logic.
Create forecasts & variance reporting for cloud spend; surface deviations (budgets vs actuals), highlight overspending, identify optimization opportunities (rightsizing, savings plans / reserved instances, idle resources).
Build alerting, anomaly detection, and trend monitoring into dashboard/reporting tools.
Enable self-service reporting where feasible-so teams can slice & dice cost/usage data relevant to them.
Collaborate closely with FinOps practitioners, engineering (cloud architects, platform teams), finance, procurement, product, and other stakeholders to understand their reporting needs and use cases.
Ensure data accuracy, consistency, reliability-manage upstream dependencies (cloud providers, usage APIs, billing exports, etc.).
Implement best practices for performance of dashboards, scalability, data latency, and maintain documentation of metrics definitions.
Stay current on cloud billing models, FinOps standards (e.g. FOCUS data spec), emerging practices in cost transparency and cloud sustainability. FinOps Foundation+2FinOps Foundation+2
________________________________________
Desired Skills & Qualifications
Category Must-Haves Nice-to-Haves
Technical / Tooling Experience with business intelligence / visualization tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Grafana, etc.) Knowledge of cloud-native dashboards/tools (AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, Google Cloud Platform Billing, etc.), open source dashboards
Strong SQL skills; data modelling, ETL pipelines, ability to work with large datasets Experience with streaming or near-real-time data pipelines, data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, etc.)
Familiarity with cloud providers' billing / usage / tag APIs and data exports Hands-on with data engineering tools (Airflow, dbt, Spark, etc.)
FinOps / Domain Knowledge Understanding of cloud cost concepts: unit costs, on-demand vs reserved/savings plans, commitments, amortization, rightsizing, utilization, tagging, shared services cost allocation Certifications like FinOps Certified Practitioner, or cloud provider cost-optimization certifications
Awareness of FinOps Framework, Reporting & Analytics capabilities; ability to translate usage data into cost stories that drive actions Experience with embedding sustainability / carbon metrics alongside cost & usage data
Soft Skills Strong communication skills: ability to present insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders, tell stories with data Experience working in cross-functional teams (engineering, product, finance)
Strong problem-solving skills; ability to translate vague data / requests into well-defined dashboard requirements Ability to teach others / build dashboard standards / provide training documentation
Operational Excellence Experience ensuring data quality, handling missing/dirty data, metadata/versioning of metrics Monitoring, performance tuning of dashboards and alerting on data freshness / pipeline health
________________________________________
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) / Success Metrics
Dashboard adoption: percentage of core personas (engineering, finance, product, leadership) using dashboards regularly.
Cost transparency: % of cloud spend covered by accurate tagging / metadata enabling cost allocation.
Forecast accuracy: variance between forecasted vs actual cloud spend.
Anomaly detection responsiveness: number and severity of cost anomalies flagged and remediated.
Time to insight: how long it takes from data availability (e.g. billing export) to dashboards being updated.
Efficiency gains: reductions in engineering or finance effort for ad hoc cost/usage analyses thanks to dashboards / self-service.
Cost savings identified (and realized) via insights delivered through dashboards: rightsizing, reserve purchase, waste elimination, etc.
________________________________________
Experience
Required: 3-5 years in data / dashboard / business intelligence work, especially in cloud or technology cost analytics.
Solid experience with cloud cost or usage datasets.
Experience interfacing with stakeholders from engineering, finance, product and translating requirements.
Preferred: Experience in organizations already practicing or maturing FinOps; prior role as dashboard developer or cost/usage analyst; familiarity with multiple cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
________________________________________
Tools / Technologies (Typical Stack)
Billing / usage APIs from AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform
Data warehouse / lake (e.g. BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, etc.)
ETL / ELT pipelines (e.g. dbt, Airflow, custom scripts)
Dashboard / visualization tools (Power BI, Looker, Grafana, Tableau, etc.)
Version control (git) for dashboard definitions and metrics logic
Possibly scripting / coding in Python, SQL, etc.
Key Responsibilities:
Monitor and analyze cloud usage and spending trends across platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, surface anomalies and drive to resolution
Implement cost optimization and waste management strategies (e.g., Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, right-sizing)
Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to provide visibility into cloud costs
Establish and enforce tagging standards and cost allocation policies. Ensure all resources are tagged every month
Educate teams on FinOps best practices and promote a culture of cost awareness
Automate cost management tasks and integrate FinOps tools into CI/CD pipelines
Flexera One CCO administrator
Participate in external forums to bring improvement suggestions on the FinOps engineering best practices (e.g. attending and contributing to FinOps foundation slack channels, community forums, FinOps-X days, etc.)
Required Skills & Qualifications:
5+ years of overall experience and 2+ years as FinOps engineer
Strong understanding of cloud platforms and pricing models
Deep understanding of cloud native cost management tools and Flexera One Cloud Cost Optimization
Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI, Tableau)
Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell) for automation
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Preferred Qualifications:
FinOps Certified Engineer or similar certification.
Experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles.
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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